The British Musical Miscellany (Various)

• Volume 1

1. Arne: Was ever nymph like Rosamond from Rosamond
2. Mr. Gouge: The Ladies' Case
3. Anonymous: The last time I came o'er the Moor
4. Anonymous: The Solitary Lover
5. Greene: Charming Sylvia
6. Folk Songs: And this is no mine ain House
7. Anonymous: The Modest Concealment
8. Anonymous: The Amorous Protector
9. Greene: The Fly
10. Anonymous: The Complaint
11. H.D.: Beauty and Love at variance grown
12. W. Powells: The Lover's Plea
13. Mr. Vincent: On Chloris's Unkindness
14. Festing: The Doubtful Shepherd
15. Greene: True Love
16. Anonymous: The Ravish'd Lover
17. Galliard: As the Moles silent stream
18. Lampe: Amelia wishes when she dies from Amelia (1732)
19. Mr. Scrimshaw: The Bashful Lover
20. Anonymous: The Vicar of Bray
21. Sheeles: An Apology for Loving a Widow
22. Holcombe: The Happy Man
23. Greene: While blooming youth and gay Delight
24. Anonymous: The Maid's Request
25. Anonymous: Bacchus Defeated
26. Anonymous: The Sublime Passion
27. Anonymous: The Unhappy Swain
28. Anonymous: Celia in a Jessamine Bower
29. Greene: Ye happy swains whose Hearts are free
30. Anonymous: The Farmer's Son
31. Folk Songs: The Lass of Livingstone
32. Leveridge: If Love be a Fault
33. James V of Scotland (attributed): The Gaberlunzie Man
34. Charke: Venus now leaves her Paphian Dwelling from Impromptu Revel Masque
35. Charke: Ah, how inviting, ah, how delighting from Impromptu Revel Masque
36. Charke: Sweet Linnets, on every Spray from Impromptu Revel Masque
37. William Barton (also attributed to Babell): Mariana's Charms wound my Heart
38. Anonymous: The Too Curious Swain
39. Pepusch: Thirsis, a young and am'rous Swain
40. Leveridge: Love's Reward
41. Geminiani: A Burlesque to Geminiani's Minuet
42. Anonymous: Melinda's Complaint
43. Mr. Scrimshaw: When I first saw thee gracefull move
44. Thomas Bowman: The Replication
45. Morgan (or George Morgan): By shady Woods and purling streams
46. Arne: Beneath some hoary Mountain from Rosamond
47. Anonymous: The Happy Swain
48. Anonymous: O'er the Moor to Maggie
49. Anonymous: The Unskillful Lover (A Dialogue)
50. Leveridge: Cupid, my Pleasure/Bacchus, my Treasure
51. Leveridge: Vain Man to think of Joy on Earth
52. Edward Phillips (presumably): Come, be free, my lovely Lasses from The Livery Rake (1733)
53. Edward Phillips (presumably): Don't you teize me, let me go from The Livery Rake (1733)
54. Anonymous: Since Love is my Foe from The Lover's Opera (1729)
55. Greene: Celadon's Jugg
56. Anonymous: Advice to the Ladies
57. Anonymous: The Blind Boy
58. Folk Songs: Dumbarton's Drums
59. Carey: Leave leave your folded Flocks in Peace to sleep (A Pastoral)
60. "An Eminent Master": Shepherdesses pretty Lasses (A Pastoral)
61. Anonymous: Cupid and Charlotte
62. Anonymous: The Jolly Bacchanal
63. Carey: When Parents Obstinate and cruel from from The Contrivances (referred to as The Scotch Humour)
64. Anonymous: The London Lass
65. Anonymous: The Coy Lass
66. Carey: The Prince of Orange's Welcome
67. Burgess Sr. or Burgess Jr.: Damon and Cloe
68. Anonymous: Peggy's Mill
69. Leveridge: On a Watch hanging at a Bed's Head
70. Arne: Charmer of my Soul away from Dido and Aeneas (1734)
71. Boyce: What tho' you cannot move her
72. Anonymous: The Lofty Beggars
73. Anonymous: The Illusion
74. Leveridge: The Critical Minute
75. Anonymous: The Unwilling Departure
76. Anonymous: The Farewell
77. Anonymous: Advice to the Unwary
78. Anonymous: Happy Myrtillo
79. Whichello: The Divine Right of Beauty
80. Anonymous: The Young Lover's First Address
81. Morgan (or George Morgan): Great Love thou universal King
82. Anonymous: Damon and Cloe
83. Leveridge: Charming Myra
84. Boyce: The Hopeless Swain
85. Arne: Soft Desires, glowing fires from Dido and Aeneas (1734)
86. Anonymous: The Lady's Complaint for the Departure of her Lover
87. Leveridge: Joy to our Sovereign, George, the King
88. Lampe: Whilst endless Tears and Sighs declare from Fatal Falshood
89. Anonymous: Tweed-side
90. William Wheeler: Tell me, my Charmer, prithee do
91. Anonymous: The Despairing Lover
92. Carey: The Nightingale
93. Anonymous: The Amorous Lover
94. Anonymous: Advice to Youth
95. Anonymous: The Coy Lady
96. Anonymous: Oh! what Pleasure will abound from The Lottery (1732)
97. Flackton: Clarinda
98. Carey: A Hunting Song (The Hounds are all out and the Morning does peep)

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• Volume 2

1. Carey: Generous Love
2. Anonymous: Nector chang'd by the Gods into Punch
3. Anonymous: Phillis, the Toast
4. Leveridge: Cloe my breast did fire
5. Leveridge: Small is the Spot of Earth
6. Handel: Phillis be kind and hear my love from English Songs
7. Carey: Once for all
8. Anonymous: Love and Philosophie
9. Folk Songs: Nanny O
10. Sheeles: A Sigh
11. Anonymous: The Shepherds Complaint
12. Mr. Webber: On a Lady throwing Snow Balls
13. Anonymous: The Apology
14. Mr. Gouge: Hopeless Love
15. Anonymous: A Minuet (As on a sunshine summer's Day)
16. Anonymous: The Lover's Request
17. Leveridge: Damon ask'd me but once
18. Lampe: Ah Traitress, wicked, and impure from Amelia (1732)
19. Leveridge: Sure ne'er was a Dog so wretched as I
20. Anonymous: Mary Scot
21. Anonymous: Marian's Complaint
22. Leveridge: When Jealous Cupid first survey'd
23. Leveridge: A Dialogue between Death and a Dying Person
24. Carey: Love and Prudence
25. Carey: The Resolve
26. Anonymous: The Slighted Lover
27. Anonymous: Advice to Clarinda
28. Pepusch: Beauty and Musick
29. Anonymous: The Jolly Topers
30. Anonymous: An Epithalamium
31. Mr. Gouge: Phebe
32. Anonymous: Trust not Man, for he'll deceive you from Ariadne (possibly Arianna in Creta)
33. Anonymous: Linco's Advice to Damon
34. Smith: When fair Ophelia tunes her Voice
35. Handel: Love ever vanquishing, Hearts softly languishing from Acis and Galatea
36. Leveridge: Good Nature Preferable to Wit or Beauty
37. Mr. Gouge: Jockey and Jenny
38. Anonymous: The Foolish Prude
39. Anonymous: A Scotch Dialogue in Imitation of an Ode in Horace
40. Mr. Hayward: From cens'ring the State, and what passes above
41. Lampe: My charmer's very Name does all my Soul enflame from Amelia (1732)
42. Folk Songs: The Queen of May (parody of Over the Hills and Far Away)
43. Anonymous: Blink over the Burn, Sweet Betty
44. Anonymous: Celia Sighing
45. Carey: The Wheedler
46. Anonymous: Truth (I have been in Love)
47. Anonymous: To Salinda
48. Anonymous: The Wish
49. Handel: The Dream (Beneath a shady Willow)
50. Leveridge: Thanks to the Parson
51. Anonymous: The Country Life
52. Mr. Gouge: False Philander
53. Anonymous: The Fair Emelia
54. Handel: I come my fairest treasure (English version of "Non è si vago e bello" from Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
55. Anonymous: The Plain Dealer
56. Leveridge: The Antidote or the Coquet's End
57. Mr. S. H.: An Apology
58. Folk Songs: The Birks of Endermay
59. Boyce: Fair Silvia
60. John Harris: Oft have I Swore I'd Love no more
61. Handel: Return fair Maid to Fields and Farms (English version of a minuet aria from Poro, re dell'Indie)
62. Leveridge: How servile is the state of Man
63. Folk Songs/David Rizzio: Beneath a Beech's grateful Shade (parody of "The bonniest Lass in a' the World")
64. Greene: Florimel
65. John Hudson: As Granville's soft Numbers, tune Myra's praise
66. Anonymous: The Silent Confession
67. Festing: To Sallinda
68. Handel: Love thou great ruler thee I adore
69. John Harris: Since Celia's unkind, and my Passion disdains
70. Anonymous: The True Philosophy
71. Folk Songs: Love is the Cause of my Mourning
72. Howard: While from our Looks, fair Nymph, you guess
73. Boyce: The Distracted Lover
74. Geminiani: Know, Madam I never was born (text set to a Minuet)
75. Leveridge: Old Poets have told us, when they were grown mellow
76. Folk Songs: There's my Thumb, I'll ne'er beguile thee
77. Whichello: Contentment
78. Anonymous: The Merry Baccanallian
79. Handel: A Bacchanallian Song (Let's be merry and banish thinking)
80. Handel: How is it possible, how can I forbear? (text set to the minuet from the overture of Arianna in Creta)
81. Carey: In these Groves with Content and Tranquility
82. Howard: The Force of Friendship
83. Boyce: Castalio's Complaint
84. Carey: A Song in Brittannia
85. Anonymous: The Expectation
86. Anonymous: On Mr. Duck's Preferment
87. Holcombe: Charming Neæra
88. Folk Songs: The Bush aboon Traquair
89. Anonymous: Why can't You and I be free
90. Lampe: The Youngling ravish'd from its Nest from Amelia (1732)
91. John Harris: Let longing Lovers sit and pine
92. Folk Songs: The Lass of Peaty's Mill
93. Anonymous: The Coquet
94. Dieupart: The Female Phaeton
95. John Harris: A Life without Trouble
96. Ariosti: The Passionate Lover (English text set to an air)
97. Leveridge: A Hunting Song (The sweet Rosie morn peeps over the Hills)

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• Volume 3

1. Handel: Beauteous Nymph, far hence be gone (English version of "Secondaste al fine, oh stelle" from Il pastor fido)
2. Folk Songs: Bonny Jean
3. Anonymous: The Expostulation
4. Handel: Myra, no more beguile (English version of "Dimmi, cara" from Publio Cornelio Scipione)
5. Anonymous: A Lover's Excuse for his Inconstancy
6. Anonymous: A Song on the Prince and Princess of Orange
7. Carey: Crowds of coxcombs thus deluding
8. Smith: When absent from the Nymph I love
9. Lampe: Men born on Earth like other brutes from Timon in Love (1733)
10. Anonymous: To Salinda
11. Anonymous: Advice to Chloe
12. Smith: Ten Years, like Troy, my stubborn Heart
13. Mr. Gladwin: When charming Cloe gently Walk's
14. Folk Songs: Farewell to Lochaber
15. Anonymous: A Civil Truth
16. Lampe: I'll court the fair Idols no more to comply
17. Lampe: From the Age of fifteen we Women 'tis true from Timon in Love (1733)
18. Anonymous: Ye Gentle Gales that fan the Air
19. Greene: On Princess Amelia (Ye Nymphs of Bath)
20. Anonymous: The Diffident Lover
21. Anonymous: Hymen in Chains
22. Greene: Ah! Syren charmer, turn again
23. Handel: Go, Cupid, flatt'ring Chit (English version of "Sì, caro, ti stringo al fin" from Admeto)
24. Carey: Divinest Fair, oh ease my Care
25. Anonymous: Apollo and Daphne
26. Folk Songs: Sleepy Body
27. Lampe: Farewell Amelia lovely Fair
28. Folk Songs: The Wrangling Lovers
29. Anonymous: The Happy Lover
30. Folk Songs: The Spinning Lass
31. Handel: The Slighted Swain from English Songs
32. S. G.: The Lady's Dream
33. Anonymous: Charming Cloe
34. Anonymous: Who, to win a Woman's Favour from Columbine Courtesan (1739)
35. Anonymous: The Determin'd Nymph
36. Folk Songs: Hap me with thy Petticoat
37. Carey: A Song in Brittannia (Noble stranger, I approve thee)
38. Handel: Lovely Belinda, wonder of Nature (English version of "Sciolga dunque al balla, al canto" from Parnasso in festa)
39. Bononcini: Observe yon tunefull Charmer (likely an English version of an aria from an opera)
40. Mr. Seedo: Hampstead
41. Smith: The Night was still, the Air serene
42. Hayes: As Sappho cross'd the Dang'rous sea
43. Lampe: The Premonition
44. Folk Songs: The Peremptory Lover (parody of "John Anderson my Jo, John")
45. Nares: Long from th'assaults of Cupids Arms
46. Folk Songs: With broken words, and downcast eyes
47. Richardson: Wanton gales that Fondly play round
48. Travers: The Protestation
49. Samuel Cooke: The Dream
50. Bononcini: 'Tis my Glory to adore you (English version of "Per la gloria d'adorarvi" from Griselda)
51. Geminiani: The Sympathizing Heart (likely English text set to a minuet)
52. Handel: God of Musick, charm the Charmer (English version of an aria from Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi)
53. Folk Songs: The Bob of Dunblane
54. Carey: The Happy Nuptials
55. "A Gentleman:" The Beautiful Amanda
56. Anonymous: Ye Gods! was Strephon's Picture blest
57. Anonymous: Flora's Holliday
58. Arne: In that dear hope how many live
59. "A Scholar of Mr. Careys:" Strephon Request
60. Smith: To fight in your Cups and a buse
61. Mr. Sam's: Within a solitary Grove despairing
62. Anonymous: The Agreement of the Gods
63. Handel: Strephon's Complaint from English Songs
64. Lampe: If Bounteous Nature e'er had meant
65. Carey: Lovely ruler of my Heart
66. Handel: A Dialogue (Men are all Traytors/Women are fickle)
67. Anonymous: The Inconstant Swain
68. Anonymous: A Drinking Song (Ev'ry Man his Scepter take)
69. Mr. Sam's: No more shall Meads bedeck'd with flowers
70. Ramsay: The Soldier's Welcome Home (Auld Lang Syne)
71. Mr. Webber: Cloe's Advice to Strephon
72. Pepusch: When severest woes Impending from Perseus and Andromeda (1717)
73. Handel: Lamenting, complaining of Celia's disdaining (English version of "V'adoro, pupille" from Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
74. Richardson: Thou rising sun whose gladsome ray
75. Anonymous: The mournfull Shepherd
76. Greene: The sun was sunk beneath the Hill
77. Handel: The Beauteous Cloe (English version of an aria from Ottone, re di Germania)
78. Anonymous: Through the Wood Laddie
79. Bononcini: The Invocation (likely an English version of an aria from an opera)
80. Mr. D.: Love is a pretty thing
81. S. G.: Fly false Man deceiver go
82. Bononcini: Dear Pritty Maid, don't fly me so (likely an English version of an aria from an opera)
83. Leveridge: The Roast Beef of Old England
84. "An Eminent Master:" Tho' Fate decrees that we must part
85. Anonymous: A Drinking Song (Fill the Bowl with streams of Pleasure)
86. Carey: A Dialogue (My Cares, my Dangers all are past)
87. Folk Songs: Muirland Willie
88. Lampe: The Amorous Protestation
89. Greene: Henry and Katherine
90. Handel: Come to my Arms my Treasure (English version of an aria from Ottone, re di Germania)
91. "A Gentleman of Oxford:" To a Young Lady Weeping
92. Carey: Oh Jealousy Thou raging Pain
93. Lampe: The Faithfull Lovers' Farewell
94. John Hams: Why Cloe will you Author be
95. D. Fox: The Complaint
96. Carey: Would you live a stale Virgin forever
97. Anonymous: A Hymn to Venus
98. Carey: A Hunting Song (Hark! away, 'tis the merry ton'd Horn)

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• Volume 4

1. Handel: Stay, shepherd, stay (likely English text set to a minuet)
2. Mr. Sams: Lucinda, close or veil those eyes
3. Mr. Scrimshaw: The heavy hours are almost past
4. Carey: Roger's Courtship
5. Mr. Sams: How happy are they, are belov'd and obey
6. Anonymous: A Song on Princess Amelia
7. Anonymous: When yielding first to Damon's flame
8. Lampe: The Fond Shepherdess
9. Folk Songs: My Apron Deary
10. Smith: Why cruel creature, why so bent
11. Handel: Cloe when I view thee smiling (text set to Minuet I of Water Music Suite No.3)
12. Carey: Haste haste ye little loves
13. Purcell: Cynthia frowns when ere I woo her from The Double Dealer (1693)
14. Anonymous: Galla Shiels
15. Anonymous: The Expostulation
16. Handel: See, see, my charmer flyes me (English version of "Amante stravagante" from Flavio, re de' Longobardi)
17. Sigr. Verdini: Take advice, my gallant sailor
18. Leveridge: The Faithful Mariner
19. Munro: The Reproach
20. Mr. Scrimshaw: Ah! how sweet it is to love
21. Folk Songs: The Bonny Scot
22. Anonymous: The Mock Song (The Italian nymphs and swains)
23. Whichello: The Charms of Beauty
24. Pepusch: A Sea Song (Hark, hark, methink I hear the seamen call)
25. Anonymous: The Happy Meeting
26. Handel: Gazing on my idol treasure (English version of "Venere bella" from Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
27. John Harris: Caelia with an artful care
28. Bononcini: Kind Cupid now relieve me (English version of "Volgendo a me lo sguardo" from Griselda)
29. Young: The gentry to the kingshead go
30. F.R.: Revengeful thoughts on Cloe's pride
31. Lampe: Oh joy abate thy tide
32. Handel: The Sailor's Complaint from English Songs
33. Anonymous: Ye happy nymphs, whose harmless hearts
34. Carey: A Yorkshire Song (I am in truth, a country youth)
35. Mr. Sams: The Jealous Lover
36. D. Fox: The Perplex'd Lover
37. Folk Songs: Broom of the Cowdenknowes
38. Smith: When lovers for favour petition from Teraminta (1732)
39. Boyce: Of all the torments, all the care
40. Carey: Cease to persuade nor say you love sincerely
41. Leveridge: Put briskly round the sparkling glass
42. Munro: Heaven's offspring, beauty rare
43. Carey: See the radiant Queen of Night
44. Anonymous: Wherever I am and whatever I do
45. Sigr. Verdini: Dear Sally, thy charms have undone me
46. Leveridge: When our hearts are new kindl'd
47. Anonymous (possibly Carey): O Bartledom Fair from The Honest Yorkshireman (1736)
48. Carey: When did you see any falsehood in me
49. Folk Songs: The Yellow Hair'd Laddie
50. Anonymous: The Power of Love
51. Mr. Sams: When gazing on his Phillis' eyes
52. Handel: Strephon in vain thou courtest occasion (English text set to the minuet from the overture of Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi)
53. Anonymous: Advice from Bacchus
54. Alcock Sr.: My love was fickle once and changing
55. Handel: No no no more complain (likely an English version of an aria from an opera)
56. Boyce: Would we attain the happiest state
57. D. Fox: Cupid, since my heart you've wounded
58. Handel: Bacchus one day gayly striding from English Songs
59. Anonymous: Colin's Request (set to a Scottish air)
60. Anonymous: Thomas and Harry (The Batchelor's Advantage)
61. Anonymous: Love and Innocence
62. "An Eminent Master": Thou only charmer I admire
63. Folk Songs: Scornful Nancy (Nancy's to the green wood gane)
64. Leveridge: I see she loves, tho virgin shame
65. "An Eminent Master": 'Tis thee I love, I'll constant prove
66. Boyce: The Adieu to the Spring Gardens at Vauxhall (The sun now darts fainter his ray)
67. Anonymous: The Bacchanals
68. William Hodson: The Suppliant Lover
69. Handel: O Cupid, gentle Cupid, in pity ease my pain (likely English version of an aria from an opera)
70. Anonymous: The Country Girl's Farewell
71. William Hodson: Unfortunate Celia
72. Folk Songs: Fye, gar rub her ower wi' strae
73. Anonymous: The Nut-Brown Maid
74. Mr. James: The Friendly Advice to Brunetta
75. Galliard: You follow but in vain my love
76. Alcock Sr.: When ere for each other we feel
77. Anonymous: The Conquest (Strephon a young unthinking Swain)
78. Anonymous: The Country Delight (The Useful Plow)
79. Thomas Bowman: The Scotch Lass
80. Handel: Why this talking still of dying (likely English text set to a minuet)
81. Carey: The Modern Beau
82. Dieupart: Advice to Celia
83. Mr. Wilson: To thee, oh gentle sleep, alone
84. Lampe: Did ever lover thus compel from Columbine Courtesan (1739)
85. Purcell: To Cloe (What is power, what a crown)
86. Mr. Wilson: Florella (Why will Florella, when I gaze)
87. Mr. Sams: In person so pretty, in converse most witty
88. Mr. Sams: The Maid's Request
89. Anonymous: Corydon's Complaint (set to a Scottish air)
90. D. Fox: Cloe my dear when you are nigh
91. Anonymous: The British Muses (An Ode)
92. Mr. Sams: The Extreams
93. Folk Songs: The Highland Laddie
94. Whichello: What is there in this foolish life
95. Mr. Sams: Phillis I can ne're forgive it
96. Carey: A Touch on the Times
97. Anonymous (possibly Gay): There was a swain full fair from The Wife of Bath (1713)
98. Carey: A Hunting Song (Away, away, we've crown'd the day) from Apollo and Daphne (1726)

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• Volume 5

1. Handel: To a Nightingale (text set to the musette from the overture of Alcina)
2. Handel: Charming Monimia (text set to the minuet from the overture of Arianna in Creta)
3. Folk Songs: The City Ladies and Country Lass
4. Handel: O beauteous queen, unclose those eyes from Esther
5. Lampe: Sylvia to Alexis
6. Anonymous: A Song to Delia
7. Folk Songs: Bonny Christy
8. Anonymous: Love and Wine United
9. Anonymous: The Snake in the Grass
10. Folk Songs: John Hay’s Bonny Lassie
11. Lampe: Love is not to be Concealed
12. Alcock Sr.: Was ever passion cross’d like mine from Rosamond (c. 1732)
13. Anonymous: The Artifice
14. Handel: Wine’s a mistress gay and easy (English version of “Le profonde vie dell’onde” from Ottone, re di Germania)
15. Mr. Wilford: Would fate to me Bellinda give
16. Mr. Markwell: The Declaimer
17. Burgess Sr. or Burgess Jr.: Love, thou dear but cruel tyrant
18. Lampe: It is not being six foot high
19. John Bowman (possibly): Ancient Phillis has young graces from The Double Dealer (1693)
20. Handel: Would you gain the tender creature from Acis and Galatea
21. Anonymous: Colin’s Request
22. Anonymous: The Surrender
23. Folk Songs: Willy’s Rare and Willy’s fair
24. Handel: While I press my idol goddess (likely an English version of an opera aria)
25. Lampe: Love is often cursed in wooing
26. Galliard: Vain were graces, blooming faces from Apollo and Daphne (1726)
27. Carey: The Batchelor’s Wife from The Contrivances
28. Lampe: Apollo’s Advice
29. Munro: Happy Dick
30. Galliard: Though envious old age seem in part
31. “The Lady”: Applepye
32. Mr. Markwell: Dear Chloe attend to th’advice of a friend
33. Mr. Sams: To Mirtilla (Thou all that I shall e’er admire)
34. Anonymous: To you fair nymphs as yet unwed
35. Mr. Sams: When frost and snow does cover the ground
36. Anonymous: Unrelenting dearest creature
37. Lampe: Though times no longer look serene
38. Folk Songs: Maggie’s Tocher
39. Lampe: Love’s a fond deluding passion from Timon in Love (1733)
40. Lampe: Once beast and gods alone had right from Timon in Love (1733)
41. Alcock Sr.: How faint a joy the maid imparts
42. Handel: As Celia’s fatal arrows flew from English Songs
43. Samuel Cooke: The Soldier’s Farewell
44. Munro: My goddess Celia heavenly fair
45. Handel: Thyrsis afflicted with love and despair (text set to the minuet from Water Music Suite No.1)
46. D'Urfey (possibly): Jenny’s Lamentation from The Royalist (1682)
47. Alcock Sr.: On Mr. Handel
48. Lampe: Cupid Defeated by Cloe at Bath
49. Folk Songs: Sae merry as we have been
50. Leveridge: The Happy Pair
51. Handel: The Satyr’s Advice to a Stock-Jobber from English Songs
52. Alcock Sr.: Mistaken fair lay Sherlock
53. Leveridge: Cloe’s a goddess in the groves
54. Alcock Sr.: As Cloe o’er the meadow passed
55. Folk Songs: An thou were my ain thing
56. Purcell: Fairest isle, all isles excelling from King Arthur
57. Munro: The Retirement
58. Anonymous: The Free Mistress
59. Handel: Since thus you slight my pain (English version of “Se non mi vuol amar” from Tamerlano)
60. Mr. Scrimshaw: Oh how could I venture to love one like thee
61. Anonymous: Dame Jane, or the Penitent Nun
62. Anonymous: Hero and Leander
63. Anonymous: Fair and soft and gay and young
64. Folk Songs: The Carle Came O’er the Croft
65. Lampe: Patience is vanished far away
66. Pepusch: As swift as time put round the glass
67. Handel: Hopes beguiling, pleasures smiling (likely an English version of an opera aria)
68. Edward Purcell: Damon’s Repulse
69. Hemming: Boast not, mistaken swain, thy art
70. Leveridge: Shou'd I Once Change My Heart from Aesop (1697)
71. Handel: Not, Cloe, that I better am from English Songs
72. Galliard: The Early Horn from The Royal Chace (1736)
73. Lampe: The Humble Admirer
74. Carey: O leave me to complain from The Contrivances
75. Lampe: Dearest everlasting blessing
76. Dieupart: Lotharia
77. Whichello: An Ode (No, no, ‘tis in vain)
78. Sheeles: The Constant Swain and Virtuous Maid
79. Stanley: I feel new passions rise from 3 Cantatas and 3 Songs
80. Anonymous: William and Margaret
81. Folk Songs: The Delighted Toper
82. Carey: Sooner than I’ll my love forego
83. Lampe: The Spring Wish
84. Anonymous: The Oxfordshire Match
85. Carey: Hark, hark, the huntsman sounds his horn from Apollo and Daphne (1726)

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• Volume 6

1. Handel: If love my dearest treasure (English version of “S’e tuo piacer, ch’io mora” from Atalanta)
2. Anonymous: The Unhappy Lover
3. Greene: The Bonny Seaman (Fair Sally)
4. Anonymous: Hallow E’en (Why hangs that cloud upon thy brow)
5. Leveridge: The Constant Lover
6. Greene: Good Advice (Why all this whining, why all this pining)
7. Dieupart: The Way to Content
8. Mr. Vincent: On a Lady Stung by a Bee
9. Anonymous: The Milk Maid
10. Sheeles: The Vanity of Riches
11. Anonymous: To the Disconsolate Doris
12. Folk Songs: Katherine Ogie
13. Anonymous: The Perfections of True Love (There liv’d long ago in a country place), possibly from Achilles (1733)
14. Edward Purcell: Tis not your outward charms alone
15. Courteville: The Charms of Bright Beauty
16. Mr. Vincent: I envy not the proud, their wealth
17. Arne: Love Relaps'd
18. Mr. Markwell: Love Preferable to Liberty
19. Folk Songs (possibly): A Lapland Song (Thou rising sun, whose gladsome ray)
20. Leveridge: Celia mistake not my design
21. Leveridge: Happiness in Content (Like those in favour with their stars)
22. Folk Songs: One day I heard Mary say
23. Folk Songs: Down the Burn Davie
24. Leveridge (possibly): The Wheel of Fortune
25. Galliard: Jolly mortals, fill your glasses
26. Folk Songs: Polwart on the Green
27. Folk Songs: A Health to Betty
28. Anonymous: The Toper (A curse on all care, we’ll never despair)
29. Sheeles: Kind Ariadne drowned in tears
30. Pepusch: Good Advice to a Young Lady (If you, by sordid views misled)
31. Whichello: Oh, forbear to bid me slight her
32. Handel: O what a fool was I at Celia’s feet to lie (likely an English version of an opera aria)
33. Handel: Love, o love, inspire my soul (English version of “Si, si, mel raccordero” from Atalanta)
34. Anonymous: Ye virgin powers defend my heart
35. Folk Songs: The Fond Meeting (set to “The night her blackest sable wore”)
36. Folk Songs: Gilderoy
37. Galliard: The Advice (The lass that would know how to manage a man)
38. Folk Songs: Corn Riggs are Bonny
39. Anonymous: If music be the voice of love
40. Folk Songs: The Auld Goodman
41. Howard: Cupid Deceiv’d (Young Cupid thought from Cloe’s eyes)
42. Anonymous: On Vauxhall (The crowded mall that used to shine)
43. Folk Songs: The Female Bone Setter (set to “A cobbler there was”)
44. Hayden: As I saw fair Clora walk alone
45. Alcock Sr.: Restrained from the sight of my dear
46. Handel: While Celia is flying poor Damon is dying (likely an English version of an opera aria)
47. Howard: The Doubtful Swain (Tell me dear charmer tell me why)
48. Howard: To Amanda (Forever fortune wilt then prove)
49. Folk Songs: John Ochiltree
50. Anonymous: Hymn to Venus (O Venus beauty of the skies)
51. Anonymous: Ye gods if e’er it prove my lot
52. Anonymous: The Garland (The pride of every grove I chose)
53. Folk Songs: O’er Bogie
54. Folk Songs: The Cock Laird
55. Folk Songs: Peggy I must love thee
56. Folk Songs: Auld Rob Morris
57. Anonymous: Again the god shall woo thee from The Drummer/The Rape of Proserpine (1731-1732)
58. Folk Songs: The Toast (set to “Saw ye my Peggy”)
59. Folk Songs: Young Philander (set to “The Peer of Leith”)
60. Pepusch: Dorinda (Fame of Dorinda’s conquests brought)
61. Folk Songs: A lass that was loaden with care
62. Folk Songs: My dearie if thou die
63. Folk Songs: Cromlet’s Lilt
64. Dieupart: Love’s Occultist
65. Hayes: The Lass of Bromhall Green from 12 Arietts or Ballads and 2 Cantatas
66. Mr. Sandford: Constancy (I cannot change as others do)
67. Anonymous: The Country Wife’s Complaint (You nymphs that would true pleasure learn)
68. Folk Songs: The Widow
69. Folk Songs: The Wawking of the Faulds
70. Anonymous: Cosmelia (Cosmelia’s charms inspire my lays)
71. Folk Songs: Logan Water
72. Leveridge: Old Age (Oft I’m by the women told)
73. Folk Songs: My Soger Laddie
74. Folk Songs: Jocky said to Jenny
75. Handel: Charming Cloris (Ask not the cause why sullen spring) (possibly an English version of an opera aria)
76. Folk Songs: Willy was a wonton wag
77. Folk Songs: Willie Winkie’s Testament
78. Folk Songs: Etrick Banks
79. Munro: Gold’s Superiority in Love
80. Lampe: The Deceiv’d Shepherd
81. Folk Songs: Johnny and Nelly
82. Richard Osborne: An Ode to Iris
83. Folk Songs: She raise and loot me in (The night her silent sable wore)
84. Folk Songs: The Bonny Lass of Branksome
85. Sheeles: Zephir who with spring returning (text translated from Vivaldi’s Farnace)
86. Anonymous: Patie and Peggy
87. Folk Songs: The Glancing of her Apron
88. Lewis Ramondon: She would and she would not
89. Folk Songs: Had Away Frae Me Donald
90. Betts: Fair Cloe Weeping
91. Anonymous: The Ladies’ Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino
92. Betts: A Fair Maid Throwing a Snowball
93. Folk Songs: The Bonny Earl of Murray
94. Anonymous: Sappho’s Hymn to Venus (O Venus beauty of the skies)
95. Folk Songs: For Our Lang Biding Here

Henry Carey

William Oldys

Joseph Addison

Thomas Bowman

Bazalele Morris

Mr Mitchell

George Sewell

Richard Leveridge

James V of Scotland (attributed)

Dr Parnell

Jonathan Swift

Mr Parratt

Colley Cibber

Mr Baker

Benjamin Griffin

words from the Weekly Miscellany

a Lady

John Hughes, esq.

William Bedingfield

Arthur Bradley

John Lockman

Captain C.

Mr Manly

Mr G. L.

Thomas Brerewood jun.

P. W., esq.

Mr Lamb

Mr Jersey

I. A., esq., a scholar of Mr Carey's

John Vanbrugh

George Granville

William Congreve

F. R.

Mr Dilbury

John Gay

Aaron Hill, esq.

R. Courtivil, esq. (Raphael Courteville)

Mr Concanen

from The Spectator

Matthew Prior

James Moore, esq.

Sappho